Thursday, May 28, 2009

Vote for your favorite science blog (this one!)

3quarksdaily.com, a website whose editors “present interesting items from around the web on a daily basis, in the areas of science, design, literature, current affairs, art, and anything else [they] deem inherently fascinating”, has launched its first of four annual best blog prizes. This maiden edition of the award, The 3QD Prize in Science 2009, purports in fact to elect the best entry in a science blog.

Nominations will remain open until June 1st. If you wish to nominate a blog entry, all you have to do is go to the bottom of this page and post a comment containing (in the body of the comment) the URL of your favourite blog entry, with or without some brief accompanying remarks about what motivated your choice.

After the end of the nomination period, everyone will have the opportunity to vote on their favorite.

Timeline:- June 1st, 2009: The nominating process will end at midnight (NYC time) of this date (so there are very few days left to participate in this phase of the process!). At some point on this day, the public voting will be opened. - June 8th, 2009: Public voting ends at midnight (NYC time). - June 21st, 2009: The winners are announced.

Other practical infos, gleaned from the 3QD website: - Anything written between May 24th 2008 and now is eligible for nomination. - Between June 8th and June 21st, Stephen Pinker will select the winning entry from six finalists.

And now the most important part: if you like this blog, YOU can nominate one my posts....

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About Me

I was born in Buenos Aires in 1954, where I grew up, moving in my early teens to Boston with my parents and brother, and then to Paris. I studied math and statistics at the Université de Paris and started my career in the media in that city in the early 80’s, first as a science journalist for Pour la Science, the French edition of Scientific American, and then for the French science magazine La Recherche.
In 1989, I moved to Portugal (where I married) and started working at the science desk of the newly-founded daily newspaper PÚBLICO in Lisbon, which I left in June 2016. In the mid-90’s, I was instrumental to the creation of the newspaper’s website, which is today the most influential media site in Portugal.
In parallel to my journalistic career, I also worked as a translator. In 1993, I won the national prize of the Société Française de Traducteurs for my translation of Gerald Edelman’s Bright Air, Brilliant Fire for the Editions Odile Jacob (Paris).
I am currently working, since June 15th, 2016, as a science writer for the Research Division of the Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown, in Lisbon.
I live in Lisbon with my husband and our two children.

About this blog

My journey to my genes started with a DNA test. Next, I wrote a story about it for my newspaper, the Portuguese daily PÚBLICO, with exactly that title, Journey to my genes, which I publish here as a first “chapter”. But since there’s much more to say – for one thing, the information I receive from the firm who performed the test is regularly updated when new scientific results arise –, I decided to create this blog: to keep writing the story, to talk about things I couldn’t fit into the original article, and to explore more deeply the things I found out. And also, to make this adventure more interactive. Send me your comments and questions. If you’re linked professionally to areas such as health and genetics, you can mention this affiliation if you think it’s relevant – but you can also send anonymous comments (all comments will be moderated by me).